Triple

T13551792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject surveillance capitalism E323664 entity
Predicate describedIn P519 FINISHED
Object The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark book by Shoshana Zuboff that analyzes how tech corporations exploit personal data to predict and shape human behavior for profit, fundamentally transforming capitalism and democracy.
E1047320 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Statement: [surveillance capitalism, describedIn, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Context triple: [surveillance capitalism, describedIn, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. Center for Humane Technology
    The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit organization that advocates for ethical, human-centered design in digital technologies and works to mitigate the negative impacts of social media and persuasive tech on society.
  • C. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy is a nonfiction book that critiques the rise of major tech platforms and argues that their business models have damaged creative industries, public discourse, and democratic institutions.
  • D. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
  • E. The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
    "The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Triple: [surveillance capitalism, describedIn, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
Generated description
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark book by Shoshana Zuboff that analyzes how tech corporations exploit personal data to predict and shape human behavior for profit, fundamentally transforming capitalism and democracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Target entity description: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark book by Shoshana Zuboff that analyzes how tech corporations exploit personal data to predict and shape human behavior for profit, fundamentally transforming capitalism and democracy.
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. Center for Humane Technology
    The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit organization that advocates for ethical, human-centered design in digital technologies and works to mitigate the negative impacts of social media and persuasive tech on society.
  • C. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy is a nonfiction book that critiques the rise of major tech platforms and argues that their business models have damaged creative industries, public discourse, and democratic institutions.
  • D. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
  • E. The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
    "The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaff0a6548190b8cde5084cef0061 completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75da721208190a3f5159125dbde9a completed May 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f75ec5101081909652b0c0998b36c8 completed May 3, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75f4a3b0c81908c0ca0351771953b completed May 3, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:46 p.m.